Sports Medicine Essentials - An Interactive Course

Dates: 21 – 25 Feb, 2018

Location: San Diego, California

Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina

This Team Physician Course gives primary care, specialty physicians and other healthcare providers the core of knowledge to care for sports teams in the community. The course is delivered in two parts (offered in February of each year). Participants are not required to complete courses in sequential order.

The course offers you hands-on workshops that will help fill in gaps in your course work. You will be presented with new perspectives in the orthopedic, primary care and emergency medicine aspects of sports medicine and athlete care.

Course Topics:

Overuse

Shoulder

Upper Arm

Elbow-Forearm

Rehabilitation

Cervical Spine

Child

Musculoskeletal

Upper Extremity

Head/Neurology

Cardiovascular/Cardiopulmonary

Infectious Disease

Immunology

Female Athlete

Psychology

GI and GU

Who should attend?

Clinicians and other healthcare professionals interested in learning the basic information needed to provide sideline coverage and evaluation of athletic injuries.

Lodging

The Sheraton
San Diego Hotel & Marinais the official hotel. Participants and
their guests are eligible for discounted hotel rooms in the host hotel. Online reservation site will be available in July.

Team Physician Consensus Conference Statements
ACSM leads a distinguished panel of team physicians to produce Team Physician Consensus Conference Statements, a series dealing with select medical issues in the care and treatment of athletes. Statements are developed by a collaboration of major professional associations concerned with clinical sports medicine issues. The most recent consensus statement will be presented at the meeting.